27/03/2026
This winter term, some of our Berlin Perspectives courses had the opportunity to use the Zentrum für Kulturtechnik’s space and resources for their student projects to cap off the seminar. The highly successful events were:
🎙️‘Transcultural Soundscapes’, which let students and artists engage with the political nature of female music in post-revolutionary Iran, based on Dr. George Athanasopoulos’ course ‘Echoes Across Borders: Navigating the Musical Tapestry of Berlin’s Migrations’,
🎭‘Experience Wayang’, a performance and workshop showcasing Wayang Kulit, traditional Indonesian puppet theatre, based on the course ‘Asia in Berlin: Curating (Im)material Heritage’ given by Mai Lin Tjoa-Bonatz and Felicitas von Droste zu Hülshoff,
🏛️ and ‘Blurred Tracks’, pictured in this Reel, which was the last one of these projects. The exhibition was created by the students of the Berlin Perspectives course ‘Law and Decolonization of Cultural Heritage’, taught by Vanesa Menéndez Montero. Through their exhibits, the students highlighted that decolonization remains an unfinished process, drawing on personal experience as well as academic work to shed light on cultural appropriation in the fashion world, traces of colonialism in public spaces, and the many ways colonialism shaped industries and culture, from Canada to India.